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Lobbyist Kleist
Earned His Pay,
Patron Swears
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Bill Posting Co. Executive
Says Man Who Got $10,
000 of Police Slush Fund
Killed Measures in Albany
"Not a Bunco Steeper'
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Detective's Story of. Plan to
Pay Sen. Walters $5,000
m to Push Bill Is Denied
I The story of how Jack Kleist, the j
bbylsfc who received $10,000 of the
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Hitfctectives' slush fund, which was raised
promote the Lusk bill giving detec?
tives bomb-proof jobs and higher sal
|jii*g*ies, successfully killed l?gislation at
jj(4lbany was told under oath yesterday
\\\&y business men. These testified be
?crc the inquiry being made by Com?
missioner Hershfield into the slash
[j&nd scandal.
? t One of them, Ernest V. Le May, su
;j|*|erinter.der.t of the Van Beuren Bill
Sosting Company, not only told of
'leisfs ability as a lobbyist, but de
*i:4?ribed him as & mail who would carry
''?$it any agreement be had made.
Hirshfield explained that be had in
?iiwoduced this sort of testimony to off
'j'ffet the picture painted by Detectives
Hl&Qjgan and Brown, the friend? of Sena-,
??????i Lusk, who tried to make Kleist ap?
licar as a 'ounco steerer."
Detectives Bernard J. Devaney and
-Thomas H. Conkling, who helped to
a-aiso the slush fund, have been sus
iijaended from membership in the De
!ijifectiv*es Endowment Association, )t
??TOS announced last nigbt, following a
?jrMeeting of the association. Charges
'i**-?ill be preferred against them and
"they will be brought before the aaso
. c-iation's board of directors. Detective
'?rShom?R Finn, who is also said to have
'jheen active in the raising of the slush
'lifand. was dropped a week aero from
'the association's membership tot non
ilpayrnent of dues, it was announced.
? j Detective Coiikling testified that De
iijtective Edwin J. Burns had told him
???tu?t J. Henry Walters, who preceded
u,ijsk as majority leader of the Senate,
?ihraa to be retained and paid $5,000 for
'lobbying for the bill.
Charge at Once Denied
1
This was denied by officers of the
))etectives' Endowment Association, who
'insisted that Walters agreed to assist
in promoting the legislation without
jippy fee. Walters, who testified the
]jJ>*revious day, said that he had not re
?ipived any money from the detectives
i'j?rad did not expect any.
When Le May was first called to
th? stand he said that he had not
i'?-eon Kleist since last Saturday. He
ijpaid he saw him then at the office of
':the O. J. Gude Bill i'osting Company,
"v.'hich also employs him, and the
'?lobbyist, he added, told him that he
?fr?s leaving that night for Washing?
ton.- He said that Kleist m>t only
Jlj-epresetiied his firm at Albany
handling legislation affecting the bill
posting industry, but also filed plans
:th the New York City Bureau of
??Buildings for sign boards of various
'???descriptions.
i In explaining some of Kleist's Al
!"bany activities, the witness said:
"Kleii't represented the Van Beuren
[{?Company on two occasions in connec
?iition with the bill placing a tax on
?(?billboards. In fact, he respresented
?ijthe biil poster advertising business of
?lithe state in connection with a number
?k>f other gentlemen who were inter?
ested."
' "When was that?" asked Hirshfield.
jjj "In 1920 and 1S121."
lll "Docs ho devote his entire time to
?IJWorking for your firm?"
Simply One of His Clients
??: M.#
H' "No, sir; only part of his time. We
'?jare simply clients of Kleist in his
-.profession;?! capacity."
;. "Has he other concerns for which he
does work?"
as "Yes, he has a number of other cli?
ents besides us."
? "Was he successful in Albany in
.19-0 in killing the legislation which
:?was directed at your business?"
Weil, so far as wh3t you mean"
l?i? "Was the bill killed?"
I "The bill eventually was killed."
K "The bill was ?introduced lastwin
?lef-r?"
?jS "Yes."
, * "Do you know by whom?"
."'?j "By Senator Kobinaon."
? "It was again -tilled, was it not?"
"Ves, sir."
"And Kleist was up there for that
?purpose ?"
it? "Yes."
Meyer Can't Find Him
Tho process servers sent out by
?Senator Schuyler M. Meyer, chairman
;jf the legislative graft investigating
;?2ldmmittee, to und Kleist so that Hirsh
Jftbid could examine him, returned last
tight?the third day of their hunt?
mpty-handod. In making this an?
nouncement, Senator Meyer denied a
tnblished report, which was said to
Vre emanated from the committee,
hat his process servers would find
fcioist in twenty-four hours.
'What was said," explained one of
Ijttho publicity agents of tho committee,
'jiwas that if Hirshfield was actually
jjjrying to g?.t Kleist he could get him
Ifwithin ?*.'.".nty-four hours."
When Mr. Le May was questioned as
Kleistf8 personality by Commis?
sioner Hirshfield, he said:
? "I would describo Mr. Kleist as a
mod fellow."
g "Do you consider he would carry out
''?it agreement he made with anyone?"
"',,?.?."
"Do you consider him a man who
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would do a certain thing he was re?
tained to do, or at least try his best?"
"Yes, sir; he has always, at least in
any transactions he has had with' mo
or our company."
The testimony given before the joint
legislative committee, which Senator
Lusk helped to appoint, and of which
he is a member, wherein Detectives
Gegan and Brown characterized Kleist
as a "bunco steorer," was then called
to tho attention of the Avitness, who
commented:
"That would not be my opinion of
him, or anything like it."
The witness also said that Kleist
had told him that ho was handling
the Lusk detective bill as a favor to
some of the detectives he knew. Kleist,
he said, did not mention anything
about receiving money for the job.
Henry 0. Reeves, manager of the
service department of the Van Beuren
company, said that while Kleist had
no relations of a business nature with
his department, he had no reason to
think that Kleist would not carry out
his business agreements.
Detectivo Conkling, who, with Detec?
tive Bernard Devaney, was introduced
to Senator Lusk by Detectives Gegan
and Brown, was asked to describe Lusk's (
attitude when he and Devaney called on
the majority leader while the Luck bill
was pending.
"?senator Lusk acted as if he was
friendly to ub," the witness said.
"There was never a complaint made
to the police or to tho District Attor?
ney about you and Devaney, was
there ?"
"No, sir."
Senator Lusk and Gegan and Brown
testified that in April in Albany they
discussed Devaney's and Conkling's re?
lations to Kleist and the use of money
to promote the bill. None of them
was asked, when they were before the
legislative committee at its hearing
Monday night, why they had not taken
the matter to the Albany authorities.
To Call Gegan and Brown
Hirshfield has announced that he will
have Gegan and Brown before him and
demand why they did not take action
last April.
Conkling also testified that he dis?
cussed the engagement of Kleist with
Detective Edwin J. Burns, president I
of the Detectives' Endowment Associa?
tion, in the presence of Devaney and
Kleist.
"It was explained to# Barns by De?
vaney," said Conkling,'"that this man
Kleist was a friend of his and would
lobby the bill for a fee of $10,000: that
this $10,000 would be returned if the
bill did not become a law. At that I
time Burns said he could not intro- I
duce the proposition because they had I
already secured the services of ex- |
Senator Walters to lobby the bill which
they had in view."
"What was said abont whether there
was any agreement to pay Senator
Walters?"
"Burns said they had agreed to pay
Senator Walters $5,000 to lobby their
bill."
"Do you know whether or not Sena?
tor Walters received any of that
money?"
"No, sir& He did not receive it."
Testimony ?f detectives who called
on ex-Senator Walters to interest him
in the bill was that Walters agreed
to aid, but stipulated that there would
not be any fee accepted, provided the
Keith theatrical circuit, which has
him under retainer, permitted him to
aid the detectives.
Detectives9 Association
Suspends 3 in Expose
Devaney, Conhling and Finn, \
Named in Raising of Slush \
Fund, to Get a Hearing Later I
Detectives Bernard J. Devaney and ;
Thomas H. Conkling, who were de- !
moted July 13 after a hearing before
tho Acting Chief Inspector of the
Police Department for their activity in
behalf of the slush fund raised to
| assist in passage of the Lusk bill
making the rank of detectives per
I manent, have been suspended from the
! membership of the Detective Endow
| ment Association, it was announced last
; night. It was also announced that De
? tective Thomas Finn, who was demoted
i with Devaney and Conkling, Was au
| tomatically dropped from the associa
j tion's membership for non-payment of
I dues. ^ #
Announcement of the association's
[ action regarding the three detectives
was made following tho regular meet?
ing of the asso'/ition at the police
clubhouse on Riverside Drive.
Charges of "conduct unbecoming a
member of the association" are to be
preferred at once against Devaney and
i
j Conkling, it was said, and they will be
brought before the board of directors
of the association for a hearing. They
will be allowed counsel at this hearing.
Sidney R. Lask, counsel for the nsso
! ciation, said that the meeting had
adopted a resolution approving the at?
titude of President Edward J. Burns, of
the association, in his testimony at tho
public hearing inquiring into the slush
fund, and said that the association
would approve any investigation by city
officials of the slush fund activities of
Devaney, Conkling and Finn.
President Burns said that Detective
Finn had been dropped a week ago for
non-payment of dues. Charges have
not been preferred against a member
of the association since 1916, President
: Burns said.
Detective Sergeant James Gegan
! swore nt the slush fund hearing Mon
j day that he had told Devaney and Conk
| ling in Albany that if they didn't atop
j talking of needing money to pass the
I detective bill he would arrest them and
take them before the District Attorney
of Albany County.
In a letter to Senator Schuyler M. I
Meyer, Commissioner of Accounts j
David Hirshfield said that evidence in j
hand showed that Devaney, Conkling
And Finn and others set out on March i
20 and 80 hist to raise funds for the |
avowed purpose of getting the detective
bill through the Legislature. ,
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Retailers to Cut Soda
And Ice Cream Prices
Confectioners Pledge Reduction
Only on Goods Served
Over Counter
Confectioners representing the five
boroughs met in conference yesterday in
City Hall with Mrs. Louis R. Wclzmiller,
Deputy Commissioner of Public Market?, j
and agreed to reduce the prices of plat?
ice cream and sodas sold over the coun?
ter. They will sell Ice cream for 10
cents a plate, plus 1 cent war tax, and
ice cream sodas for 13 cents a glass,
plus 2 cents war tai.
For these men and the types of stores
they represent this means a reduction of
from 3 to 5 cents a plate on ice cream j
and 2 cents a glass on ice cream soda.
It developed at the outset of the con
fereftce that several of those present,
notably Thomas Kristensen, of Brook- ;
lyn, and Benjamin Miller, of the Miller |
Candy Company, who b*e eight stores
on Broadway, already were selling ice
cream for 10 cents a plate, and ice
cream sodas for 15 cents, and were
making profit by it.
The confectioners, in conceding a j
price reduction insisted on the under- !
standing that the reduction pertained i
only to sales over the counter. That is ;
to say, the lower prices do not hold
when the ice cream or the soda is served ;
to persons taking tables in the parlors
in the rear of the store.
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Tourist Ends His Life
Attorney Bound for Europe
Commits Suicide
WASHINGTON, July 21.?-U. W. Ful
lerton, an attorney of Springfield, Ohio,
shot and killed himself in a hotel here j
to-night. His wife and daughter were
staying at the hotel with him. No
reason has been assigned for his ac?
tion.
Mr. Fullerton, with his family, came
to Washington to arrange passports foi
! a trip to Europe, and to visit a son who
: is in the consular service, police offi?
cials were informed. They had planned
to depart in a day or so.
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Major to Reply To-day to
Charge Bergdoll Paid $5,000
WASHINGTON, July 21. ?? Major
Bruce R. Campbell, charged by Mrs.
Emma C. Bergdoll with having accepted
$5,000 to aid her son, Grever Cleveland
Bergdoll, draft dodger, to escape from
the military authorities, arrived here
to-day from Camp Pike, Ark., to speak
in his own defense before a House in?
vestigating committee.
Denying the charges, Major Campbell
immediately sought an interview with
Chairman Peters and was informed
that the committee would hear him
to-morrow.
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the ?rea test preoa utions.
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Ho 50 de?r*ee$ Fahrenheit
or lower.
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500 Wholesale
Grocer Drivers
Strike Over Pa v
'IT?real to Tie Up Deliveries
To-day Impels Employer?
So Gel Police Pro tec lion
for House? and Vehicle?
Principal Firma involved
Reduction Necessitated- by
Conditions, Accepted by
Others, -Companies Say
Five hundred motor truck chauffeur?
employed by wholeaale grocers und
produce merchants of New York struck
yesterday when notified of a pending
v.-H?te reduction, end announced that no
delivery trucks of the firms involved
! would bo operated by licensed drivers
1 to-day.
Shortly after the strike wns an?
nounced rcpresentaliven of the League
of Metropolitan Merchants of Now
York, of which Charlen W. Patterson,
of the Austin-Nichols Company, i:*
president, and Charles C. Ward, of
Liggett & Co., is secretary, called on
Chief Inspector William .T. Lahey at
Police Headquarters and demanded im?
mediate police protection for the truck
delivery service of wholesalers.
Want Business to Go On
"Wo want our warehouses protected
*nd demand protection for drivers of
delivery vehicles," said Mr. Patterson.
"The difficulty is perhaps temporary,
but we desire to avoid unnecessary in?
terferencia with the transaction of
business."
Eleven large wholesale houses, in?
cluding Charles & Co., of 148 East For?
ty-third Street; "K. 0. Williams ?& Co.,
56 Hudson Street; P. H. Liggett & Co.,
2 Congress Street; Seaman Brothers,
131 Penn Street; John S. Sills & Sons,
004 West Thirty-seventh Street; Aus?
tin, Nichols & Co., 195 Perry Street,
Brooklyn; William B. A. J?rgens, 88
Grand Sti-oet, Brooklyn and the
Hecker-Jones Milling Company, 145
Water Street, Manhattan, all requested
protection for their truck deliveries
this morning.
Chief Inspector Lahey promised to
furnish a police guard for every truck
stot out by these firms. Men were ?
immediately detailed to the service. I
Fifteen detectives were assigned to |
duty in connection with the strike
from Police Headquarters.
Mr. Patterson, of Austin, Nichols I
& Co., in discussing the strike last
night, said: !
"A cut has been made of from 12%
to 14 per cent throughout departments
of our business. It has been necessi-1
tatod by general business readjust- ;
ment. All other employees of the
company accepted the cut as a ?ecos- j
sary condition. The drivers and help
era rejected it and inaugurated a per- j
emptory strike. We must have op?
portunity to conduct business unim?
peded by disorderly demonstrations.
This explains our application for
police guards."
Demonstrations After Strike
Following . the strike, which was
launched shortly after noon, there
were demonstrations of hostility at the
shipping headquarters of several of the
firms involved. It was then that ap?
plication was made for protection by
the committee.
A meeting of drivers was said to be
scheduled for last night, but no report
was received of the proceedings of tho
gathering. Representatives of the men
said their opposition to the proposed
reduction in pay had been known by
the managers of all interests involved,
and that the men had boon treated per?
emptorily and unjustly.
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Daggett Gets Transit Post
George McAneny, chairman of the
Transit Commission, yesterday an?
nounced the appointment of Captain
George F. Daggett as his secretary, to
succeed Louis Graves, who recently re?
signed to accept the chair of journal-?
ism in the University of North Caro- i
Una. Captain Daggett was formerly
chicf clerk of the old Public Service
Commission.
I Randolph, in Jail, Still
Insists He Was Kidnaped
Four Chargen Placed Against
Wandering Businc?*? Man
of Sharon, Pa.
Special DUpatch to The Tribune
SHARON, Pn-, July 21.- Thomas M.
Randolph, Sharon business man, who
returned to his family last evening
after a mysterious ubsencu since last
Monday night, during which time let?
ters were roccivod by hut wife stating
that dio liad been kidnaped and wan be?
ing held for $50,040 ransom, appeared
before Aldermen Henrv G. Thomas, of
Sharon, to-day to answer four charge?,
These wore attempt, to obtain money
under false pretense, attempted black?
mail and extortion, using the mails in
a scheme to defraud and a chafg?
j based on hin alleged relations with an
j unnamed woman.
Randolph pleaded not guilty to cacl
charge, waived hearing and, when h<
did not provide necessary bail, wai
placed in a qell in the police statioi
here. Chief of Police Lansdownc saic
Randolph would be taken to the count:
jail at Mercer.
U was reported this evening that i
defoHsb of temporary insanity woul<
bo made when tho case comes up ii
court.
Bail of $500 wan demanded on tin
charge of attempting to obtain mono;
under false pretense and on the charg?
Of infidelity, $1,000 on the attempts
blackmail and extortion charge am
j 50,000 on the Federal charge.
"1 feel better now since I got som
of that dope out of my system," de
clared Randolph after making his firs
public statement.
"1 was kidnaped," he had said. "Ther
I were thirteen bandits in the gan(
j sevon of them holding mo under guar
i in Stoneboro."
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! Dry Raid Evidence
Got With Sponge
Is Put in Inkwel
Prisoner Says Detective In
vaded Home and Soppe<
Up Writing Fluid Insteai
of Whisky From Floo
Joseph Preola, thirty-one years oh
of 266 Avenue A, was arrested las
j night at 40p East Eighteenth Stre<
by Samuel Toshun, a policeman i
plain clothes, of tho First Inspectio
District, charged with having whisk
in his possession. When arraigned b<
j foro Magistrate Ryttenberg in Men
I Night Court, Preola denied the,charg
He insisted that the privacy of h
apartment had been invaded by tl:
officer without a warrant.
When Magistrate Ryttenberg di
manded evidence Toshum produced
small bottle which had evidently 1
some time contained ink. He explain?
to the court that when he enten
Preola's premises the latter was
possession of a quart bottle contai
ing a light brown fluid, which 1
dashed to the floor when the offic
appeared. Toshun informed the magi
trate that tho contents of the bott
looked like whisky and the bott
looked like a whisky bottle. I
offered frafrm- nts of the bottle in e^
dence and then submitted the ink be
tie containing alleged liquor from t
broken vessel.
When asked by the magistrate h<
1 he had managed to salvage the alleg
; evidente contained in the ink bott
Toshun said he always went arm
! with a sponge when engaged in liqu
: raids. When Preola dashed the bot'
to the floor, Toshun said, he got doi
on his knees and obtained two sponj
fuis, whicli he squeezed into the i
bottle.
Preola in pleading not guilty to t
charge said that he had broken t
bottle because he was indignant at
I unwarranted i/ftrusion on his privi
and that he intended to defend I
I charpe. The evidence offered in
I Ink bottle, he said, would convii
no fair-minded jury, because it f
well known that alcohol formed a c<
tent of all inks as a preservative
gredient. He had no knowledge
how much ink had been contained
the bottle which was seized by 1
officer from his writing; table. He s
there might have been enough ink
afford a pretentious alcoholic showi
but that ink had not yet been p
i hibitcoT
Magistrate Ryttenberg said the c
was ono of complicated possibiliti
He hold Preola for appearance in
Yorkville Court on Saturday.
Negro Slayer Quits
Frenzied Struggles
And Dies Docilely
After Biting Two Sing Sing
Guards, Eulgo Walks to
Death Bewailing Fate and
Wishing Convicts Luck
OSSINIM?) N. Y., July 21. -John P.
Bulgo, a negro, win put to death at
Sing Sing to-night for the murder of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson, of 852
East Twenty-ninth Street, Brooklyn.
His violent actions earlier in the day
I had led to tho belief that he would
! have to bo carried to the death cham
! ber handcuffed, but he walked docilely
j behind the Rev. William E. Cashin, his
i hands free.,
"Goodby, boys," he called to his
'comrades in the condemned cells. "1
wish you luck. Poor innocent man, to
bump him oft*! I was in the bu?hous?
and I got no protection here. I am in?
nocent, innocent!"
He entered the death chamber at
11:06 and was dead eight minutes
later.
Two guards remained on duty all day
in front of his cell, Warden Lew?3 E.
La we s deeming their presente neces?
sary because of the frenzied resistance
offered by the negro when he was trans?
ferred from his former quarters to a
cell nearer the death chamber this
morning.
Bulgo bit two of the keepers who
were dragging him to his new quarters,
and it was with difficulty that they and
the other two assigned to the task man?
aged to face him Into the cell allotted
to him. Previously he had assailed
with epithets and foul language a
clergyman who attempted to offer him
spiritual consolation.
The negro has been an inmate of the
Dannemora State Hospital for Insane
Felons and of the Kings Park Asylum
for the insane. At his trial, however,
no evidence of previous insapity was
introduced in his behalf and alienists
who examined him after his admission
to prison decided that he was sane.
The Johnsons, an aged couple, were
killed in their sleep July 4, 1920, by
Bulgo, who entered their home to
rob it.
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Rockefeller Guard Shot on
Skuuk Hunt Dies of Wound
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
TARRYTOWN, N. Y? July 21.?Ed?
ward Lockwood, night watchman on the |
estate of John D. Rockefeller, died i
yesterday afternoon at the Tarrytown
Hospital. Lockwood was accidentally
shot by Joseph Latham, another watch?
man employed on the estate, Monday
morning while both men were engaged i
in skunk hunting.
Mr. Rockefeller, when he learned of !
the accident, issued orders to use every i
possible means to save Lockwood'B life.
Lockwood was sixty-four years old.
Death followed amputation of his right '
leg. He succumbed to heart failure
following use of the anaesthetic.
ADVERTISEMENT
July 22-25, 1895
Did your birthday happen to fall
within or near that time?
On October 27, 1894, a little child
died. There is scientific basis for
die theory that this child's spirit
pursued a continuous existence on
earth and experienced another
physical birth about July 22-25,
1895.
This theory can be established
only by practical demonstration
and a rigorous test method has
been devised for that purpose.
Such demonstration will throw
new light on a number of human
problems which seem impossible
of solution at present.
Inquiries, suggestions, honest crit?
icisms, will receive every cour?
tesy within my power. The child
was my brother.
Re-id Davit?
Box L., 507, New York Tribune
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are up to our invariable standards.
The shirts are of white mercerized Oxford of extremely
good quality?button-down collars?well cut and made?
nothing stinted.
Scarfs are of fine grade imported silk crepe, in English
foulard Summer colors?bright without being garish
many rumchunder patterns..
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Tenth Floor
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Conference To Be Held
On Unemployment Here
?Organized Labor, City Officials
; and Civic and Welfare Socie
tiff? to Discuss Situation
William F, Kehoe, secretary of the
Trades and Labor Council, announced
? last night at a meeting at Beethoven
I Hall, 210 Fifth Street, that there would
j he a conference on unemployment in
i this city soon in which organized labor,
j municipal officials and civic and welfare
! organizations would take part.
The idea originated v/ith the Mer
j chants' Association, he .?.aid, and at the
l invitation of that organization he and
I John Sullivan, president of the council,
! had consulted yesterday afternoon with
I a committee of the association and rep
' rescntatives of the Knights of Colum
I bus, the Young Men's Christian Associ
! ation and the Young Men's Hebrew As
| :>ociation.
it was said, Mr. Kehoo asserted, that
! unemployment in this city already had
? reached so serious a ?t?te that the
'^savings banks had lost iargo amounts
?which had been withdrawn by deposit?
ors to meet the emergency. Builders,
both employers and employees, would
attend the conference, he said, and
efforts would be made to have public
works of all kinds, especially schools,
undertaken at the earliest possible
moment.
Risk Bureau Slate Clean
\ Relief Agency Clears All Back
1 Work and Cuts Personnel
From The Tribune's Washington Burean
WASHINGTON, July 21. ?Colonel
j Charles R. Forbes, director of the War
I Risk Insurance Bureau, announced to
! day that the work of the bureau was
current, or up to date, for the first time
in the history of its establishment.
Colonel Forbes feels pride in making
the announcement in view of the fact
that the force of employees has been
reduced by the hundreds within the
last few months and the work of the
bureau severely criticized in many
quarters. To-day Colonel Forbes found
that the bureau was functioning to bet?
ter advantage than ever before, that
every claim pending had been acted
upon and that the soldier applying
for compensation was being given
prompter service than at any time pre?
vious in the history of the relief agency.
Another indication of the efficiency
of the bureau since the advent of
Colonel ForbeB is noted in the report
made to-day to the surplus fund of the
Treasury, whereby the War Risk Bu?
reau turns in $67,000,000 under the ap?
propriation ''losses on war risk insur?
ance of American vessels, their cargoes,
etc."
Boy Drowns in Reserv0jP
While Swimming With Mat*
Paul J. Brennnn, seven years *
son of Paul Brennan, of 213c Am
dam Avenue, v?as drowned in th
ervolr near High B rid jr. ;an V1*'-*
while he and four boy r?m? "'.'^
?* comFarii'1?,
were swimming tn**re.
Two of his playmate* SIJB!IS
Patrolman Thomas O'N'eil 0f tht "?'"
177th Street police station, who ?v
Charles Hagen, 327 West m?. ~ *U'
dived for an hour befi>T? the ?Jt **??
recovered. ^T *?s
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They Are in Weight
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G1MBELS MEN'S CLOTHING STORE?Fourth Floor
Great Clearance! Men's
Summer Pajamas
Men ! Keep cool these
hot summer nights by
wearing these comfy
pajamas. Just 900 in
the lot, to close out
at this very special
price.
Made of a fine Cotton
Pongee. The coati
are fashioned surplice
neck, with frogs and
pearl buttons. They
come in plain colors
only.
Pink, Blue, Tan, Lavender, Cteam, While.
Sizes: Small, Medium and Large.
GIMBELS MEN'S FURNISHING SHOP?Main Floor
These hot days notice
the fellow who's brisk
? smart ? sprightly?
making things move
getting every inch of
fun out of sport?every
inch of hustle out of
business?at 90 in the
shade. It isn't a gift? i
or an accident. It's a ij
matter of right clothes.
Clothes smart because
they're rightlv tailored
?crisp?-COOL ! And
small priced, too.
Genuine Palm Beach
Suits .$14.50
Genuine Mohair
Suits. $20
Tropical Weight
Suits.$27.75
White
and Striped
FLANNEL
TROUSERS
ALL
WOOL!_
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Not all sizes left in the all
whit?. Plenty in the smart
stripes ? green ? brown??
black or blue?on white.
And an extraordinary
value! All wool!
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